Cleric To Uk: Peace Through Amputation

July 22, 2009

Islamic punishments, such as the amputation of limbs, will make
Britain a safer place, the founder of the country’s oldest sharia court
told The Times. Sheikh Suhaib Hasan, secretary of the Islamic Sharia
Council, said the enforcement of such laws was “something to bring you
more peace and security”. Hasan, who presides over a sharia court in
East London that rules on civil matters such as divorce, emphasised
that he neither sought nor expected the implementation of Islamic
criminal laws in Britain because it was not a Muslim country. However,
he said problems such as ‘knife crimes’ would be better resolved if
harsher punishments were meted out because they worked as a deterrent.
Acknowledging the controversy surrounding any notion of support for
hardline Islamic law in Britain, he said he was merely expressing his
point of view as a devout Muslim.